Construction on the main hockey arena for the Milan-Cortina Games is going down to the wire with NHL players preparing to return to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade.

A transport strike during an official test event for the Milan-Cortina Olympics highlighted why organizers are negotiating with trade unions to avoid a similar scenario during next year’s Winter Games.

Tickets are about to go on sale for the next Olympics and nobody is quite sure if one of the major Winter Games venues will be ready in time.